New York –
Legal professionals for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused prosecutors on Monday of partaking in “outrageous authorities conduct” by utilizing supplies seized from his jail cell to attempt to preserve him incarcerated earlier than a Might trial.
They stated data gathered in a raid on Combs’ cell on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn have been cited in papers the federal government filed in Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday in a bid to maintain the music mogul locked up earlier than his Might 5, 2025 trial.
“This can be a matter of grave concern that, most respectfully, should be addressed instantly,” the legal professionals advised Choose Arun Subramanian, who already has scheduled a bail listening to for Friday for Combs. They requested an “fast listening to” so prosecutors can defined who licensed the search of Combs’ cell, the place private results and paperwork have been seized.
Combs, 55, has been held since his September arrest on expenses that he coerced and abused girls and minors for years with assistance from a community of associates and workers. An indictment accuses him of silencing victims by means of blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to the costs and is at present looking for to be freed to deal with arrest by means of a $50 million bail package deal.
On Friday, prosecutors stated Combs has been making an attempt to dodge scrutiny of his jailhouse communications whereas orchestrating social media campaigns aimed toward tainting the jury pool and making an attempt to publicly leak supplies he views are useful to his case. They stated he additionally has contacted witnesses by means of third events.
Of their letter Monday, legal professionals for Combs famous that prosecutors of their bail arguments final week acknowledged that they possess “probably privileged supplies, such because the notes recovered from the defendant’s cell.”
Combs’ legal professionals referred to as it “outrageous authorities conduct amounting to a substantive due course of violation.”
They accused prosecutors of viewing their shopper’s “privileged notes to his legal professionals regarding protection witnesses and protection methods.”
A spokesperson for prosecutors declined remark.
